Golang logging using USER profile on Mint 19

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Sorin Tudor

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Hi,

I committed on learning Golang and as a part of this task i came to play with logging examples. It seems that if you user syslog.LOG_USER the info is stored in the /var/log/syslog.

Here is the code and also the output

package main
import (
	"io"
	"log"
	"log/syslog"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
)
func main() {
	progname := filepath.Base(os.Args[0])
	sysLog, err := syslog.New(syslog.LOG_INFO|syslog.LOG_USER,progname)
	if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
} else {
	log.SetOutput(sysLog)
	}
	log.Println("LOG_INFO + LOG_USER: Logging in Go!")
	io.WriteString(os.Stdout,"Will you see this?")
}

The second line (Will you see this?) is outputed only in console.

Oct 29 14:30:25 mintworkstation logging[4835]: 2018/10/29 14:30:25 LOG_INFO + LOG_USER: Logging in Go!
Oct 29 14:30:25 mintworkstation logging[4835]: 2018/10/29 14:30:25 LOG_INFO + LOG_USER: Logging in Go!

P.S.: Managed to find a config file located under /etc/rsyslog.d, called 50-default.conf.
In this file there is a commented line 

#user.*				-/var/log/user.log

If you uncomment it and restart service with systemctl restart rsyslog, the output will be moved to /var/log/user.log

Oct 29 14:48:32 mintworkstation NetworkManager[836]:   [1540817312.1683] connectivity: (enp0s31f6) timed out
Oct 29 14:49:37 mintworkstation gnome-terminal-[2196]: g_menu_insert_item: assertion 'G_IS_MENU_ITEM (item)' failed
Oct 29 14:49:59 mintworkstation gnome-terminal-[2196]: g_menu_insert_item: assertion 'G_IS_MENU_ITEM (item)' failed
Oct 29 14:50:28 mintworkstation gnome-terminal-[2196]: g_menu_insert_item: assertion 'G_IS_MENU_ITEM (item)' failed
Oct 29 14:50:59 mintworkstation logging[5144]: 2018/10/29 14:50:59 LOG_INFO + LOG_USER: Logging in Go!
Oct 29 14:51:14 mintworkstation gnome-terminal-[2196]: g_menu_insert_item: assertion 'G_IS_MENU_ITEM (item)' failed

Cheers

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